Daniel 5:4

they drank wine,—and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

In Context

3Then brought they the vessels of gold which had been taken out of the temple of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem,—and the king and his nobles, his wives and, his concubines, drank therein:

5Immediately, came forth the fingers of the hand of a man, and wrote, over against the chandelier, upon the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king,—and, the king, saw the part of the hand which was writing,

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:49Then trembled and rose up, all Adonijah’s guests,—and departed, every man his own way.

Psalms 135:15The idols of the nations, are silver and gold, the work of the hands of men:

Isaiah 42:8I, am Yahweh, that, is my Name, And, my glory, to another, will I not give, Nor my praise to images.

Isaiah 46:6They who pour gold out of a purse, And who weigh silver in a balance,—Who hire a goldsmith that he may make it into a GOD, They adore, yea they bow down;

Daniel 3:1Nebuchadnezzar the king, made an image of gold, the height thereof, sixty cubits, the breadth thereof, six cubits,—he set it up in the valley of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Daniel 5:23but, against the Lord of the heavens, hast uplifted thyself, and, the vessels of his house, have they brought before thee, and, thou, and thy nobles, thy wives and thy concubines, have been drinking, wine, therein, and, gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which see not nor hear nor know, hast thou praised,—whereas, God, in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways, him, hast thou not glorified.

Matthew Henry on Daniel 5:2-10

Belshazzar's Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall. ( b. c. 538.) 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. 3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God… Read the whole commentary →

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